Looking forward to getting to work on Scaffolding for Life, my latest project following a successful bid as part of the Arts Council’s, Creative Practice award, working with the construction industry to expand mental health awareness. Starting on Unfolding Origins soon, a commission- based community arts initiative exploring the North Yorkshire country records office. The […]
Published: 8th October 2019
Themes: autobiography, crafts, embroidery identity, signature, text
I am looking forward to presenting an artist’s perspective at the ICOM conference in Kyoto in September. This world class event brings together those interested in shaping the future of museums.My paper explores the value of small local museums and how, through the interrogation of one hand stitched cloth, the community in Robin Hood’s Bay, […]
Published: 7th July 2019
Themes: collaborative, crafts, embroidery engagement, handmade, research
This new stitch-based project celebrates the women of Tameside, past and present and is launched on IWD 8th March at Portland Basin Museum in Ashton under Lyne and is on display until end May 2019. The initiative, funded by Tameside Council acknowledges 100 years since British women first gained the right to vote. The exquisite, […]
Published: 5th May 2019
Themes: collaborative, commission, engagement, handmade, identity, suffragette, sustainable Tameside, text
Sew Near – Sew Far is part of Meeting Point2, a year-long project led by contemporary art agency Arts&Heritage that sees artists partner with museums to produce new artworks inspired by their collections. The stitch-based artworks form part of Brontë200, a five-year programme celebrating the bicentenaries of the births of the Brontës. Sew Near – […]
Published: 10th June 2018
Themes: Bronte commission, crafts, engagement, identity, signature, text Yorkshire
This project challenges stereo types surrounding embroidery, working with a group of 15 boys at Burnage Academy in Manchester. It is one in a series of initiatives to acknowledge the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Ahmed Iqbal Ullah, pupil at Burnage in the 1980’s, who was killed in a racially motivated crime. The finished […]
Published: 15th April 2018
Themes: Bangladesh, collaborative, crafts, engagement, film, handmade, identity, signature, text
Work from Kotha and Kantha – the Bangladeshi Women’s Memoir Project, in conjunction with the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Educational Trust can be seen touring local North West libraries in the spring of 2017. https://mmuspecialcollections.wordpress.com/2017/06/29/kotha-and-kantha/ A display will be at Longsight Library 17th Feb – 8 March, then the work goes to Accrington Library – 10th […]
Published: 20th June 2017
Themes: collaborative, crafts, embroidery, engagement, exhibition handmade, quilt, Rochdale text
From July til late Sept 2016 new work can be seen in the Wit of the Stitch at Ruthin Craft Centre, North Wales curated by June Hill. The exhibition includes new work – a stitched sampler created in the car park at the Crafts Centre celebrating the work of early Welsh poet Tudur Aled. Aled’s […]
Published: 8th October 2016
Themes: autobiography, embroidery handmade, identity, text
The project Kotha and Kantha ran from May to July 2016 and was supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. It brought together a group of local Bangladeshi women and the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust in Manchester Central Library. My role was to develop stitched-based responses related to the women’s lives, […]
Published: 8th July 2016
Themes: autobiography, Bangladesh, collaborative, commission, embroidery, identity, quilt,
A visit in 1988 to the Woven Air Exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London which showcased hand embroidered Kantha quilts from Bangladesh and Bengal brought about a change in Setterington’s work and a dialogue with contemporary quiltmaking that has continued ever since. Her work is in major collections from the V&A Museum to Whitworth Art Gallery, Denver Art Museum and Crafts Council Collection
Published: 6th May 2016
Themes: autobiography, Bangladesh, domestic embroidery, kantha,
The shared cloth made from the sewn names of children at Culler Middle School, Lincoln, Nebraska is complete. It evolved into a “distance” and “close” collaboration following my visits to Nebraska their last year. With help from staff and volunteers at the IQSC, we worked with three local middle schools. The schools are home to […]
Published: 11th November 2015
Themes: collaborative, embroidery, engagement, handmade, identity, signature, text
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